April (W3)

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August (W3)

august

august (adj.) 1660s, from Latin augustus "venerable, majestic, magnificent, noble," probably originally "consecrated by the augurs, with favorable auguries" (see augur (n.)); or else "that which is increased" (see augment).

August, eighth month, 1097, from Latin Augustus (mensis), sixth month of the later Roman calendar, renamed from Sextilis in 8 B.C.E. to honor emperor Augustus Caesar, literally "Venerable Caesar" (see august (adj.)). In England, the name replaced native Weodmonað "weed month."

August: named after Augustus Caesar in 8 B.C.

Autumn Splendor - Rose

bank holiday (W3)

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On this Day

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September
October
November
December (W3)

bissextile (W2)

..., except that the word "bissextile" will probably be unfamiliar. By the time of the Act, this was merely an adjective describing a "leap year" but its origins lay in the way the Romans interpolated their extra day every four years. They didn’t add it at the end of February as we do, but six days before its end, that is, after the day we would now call the 24th of February. At this point in the month, the Romans counted days backwards from the start of the next month, so this additional day was called "bis sexto", "the second sixth (day)" which evolved into our "bissextile".

calendar (W3)

• GENERALITIES
• FOUNDATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN CALENDAR
• The Easter Cycle
• The Nativity of Christ
• Saints' Days
• OUR EARLIEST CALENDARS
• FEASTS OF OUR LADY
• THE APOSTLES AND OTHER NEW TESTAMENT SAINTS
• LATER DEVELOPMENTS
• VARIOUS PECULIARITIES OF CALENDARS
• THE MODERN CALENDAR IMPOSED BY AUTHORITY
• THE CHURCHES OF THE EAST

calender (W3)

noun: A machine in which paper or cloth is made smooth and glossy by being pressed through rollers.
verb: To press (paper or cloth) in the rollers of such a machine.

Carnival
Mardi Gras
Sambódromo (W3)

• "Carnival" comes from the Latin "Carne Vale" = "Farewell to meat".
• "Mardi Gras" - It literally means "Fat Tuesday" because everyone has a blow-out.
• "Sambódromo" - The "Sambódromo" is the name of the stadium where the Carnival parade congregates for the final round of judging.
• "El entierro de la sardina" - Fish is used as a replacement for meat during Lent, so burying a sardine is a way of overturning convention.
• During the plague, doctors wore "long-nosed masks" stuffed with sweet smelling medicinal herbs to protect them from its fatal fumes.

Easter (W3)

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"Easter" comes from the Anglo-Saxon goddess "Eostre", associated with spring and fertility, and celebrated around the vernal equinox.
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Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name "Easter" is thought to come from the Scandinavian "Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre", both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox.
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• Introduction to How Easter Works
• The Season of Lent
• Holy Week and Easter Sunday
• Easter Traditions
• Worldwide Easter Celebrations
• Egg Rolling and other Easter Activities

embolismic (W2)

Another term for such an interpolated day, now virtually obsolete, is "embolismic" = "Einfügung von Schaltmonaten im julianischen Kalender", from mediaeval Latin "embolismus", which itself comes from a Greek word meaning "insertion", "interpolation" and which is also the source of our medical term "embolism", "the obstruction (of an artery, etc) by a clot of blood", "bubble of air etc.".

Friday (W3)

Greek calends, Greek kalends (W2)

Independence Day
Dependance (W3)

infoplease
The Names of the Months

intercalary (W2)

Yet another, still current, is "intercalary", from the Latin "inter-", "between" and "calare", "to proclaim", because it was the custom to proclaim the fact of the inserted extra day to give people due warning of it. Our most usual term, "leap year", which if you think about it is a rather strange idiom, may come from the fact that festivals after the "intercalary day" leap one day further forward compared with a normal year.

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The Calendar shows how astronomy and religion mix to bring us different calendars

• Day - Week - Month - Seasons - Year - Millennium
• How Long is The Day?
• Does the Sun Rise in the East and Set in the West?
• What is The Week?
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Lent (W3)

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Monday (W3)

Noughties

• 'the Noughties'
• 'the MMs'
• 'the 20 Hundreds'
• 'the Zeros'
• 'The Two Thousands'
• 'The Double Zeros'
• 'The Double Oh's'
• 'The 2K's'
• 'The Thousands'
• 'The Oh-Oh's'
• 'The O-Zone'
• 'The Millenni-os'
• 'The Aughts'
• 'Naughty Aughties'
• 'Naughty Naughts'
• 'Naughty Noughties'
• 'The Dread Noughts'
• 'The Silly Mille'
• 'The Y Worry Years'
• 'OOs' (pron. ooze)
• 'The Zeros'

red-letter day (W2)

Saturday
satt
Samstag
cereal
Zerealie
opulent (W2)

Silver Jubilee - Rose

Flag, Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee This flag was handed down through my mother's family. This one is clearly marked as celebrating Victoria's Silver ... Contributed by Individual

Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Clogs These clogs were made to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. They were made by Leigh clogger ... Contributed by Museum

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Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee Appeal A Glasgow FA Select Vs. The Football League programme in aid of the Silver Jubilee Appeal in 1977. Property of Robert ... Contributed by Individual

Silver Jubilee address to Parliament, 4 May 1977 | The Queen's Silver Jubilee, 1977

Summer Roses
Rosen, die Summer im Namen tragen

Sunday (W3)

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Tuesday (W3)

Vacation (W3)

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The etymology of "Vacation" (dt. "Ferien", "Urlaub") hints at its true purpose: The Latin "vacare" literally means "empty".
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Medieval Calendar Calculator
Kalenderberechnung - Mittelalter (extern)

Source: C.R. Cheney, ed., Handbook of Dates for Students of English History, RHS Guides and Handbooks 4 (London, 1945; rpt. with corr. 1981)
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Notes: This calendar includes all the major feasts, but not the ordinary festa.
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Wednesday (W3)

Abstract

The article first groups the clearly etymologized Germanic names for "Wednesday" according to their motive (their iconym) and tries to describe the origin, or motivation, of the names' motive. The motives are "Woden's day" (a calque from "Mercurii dies"), "mid-week (day)" (from Ecclesiastical Latin and/or Ecclesiastical Greek—with a polycausal explanation concerning its origin), "[day] after Tuesday" (which reflects the attempt to avoid the name of the heathen God Woden).
In addition, light is shed on a few unclear cases as well:

• (1) Old Frisian "Werendei" seems to include the tribal name "Wernas";
• (2) dialectal Dutch "wonseldach" may have been influenced by other day-names including the morph -el-;
• (3) Modern Low German dialectal and Dutch dialectal forms with initial g- may be founded on a Latinized scribal habit;
• (4) the interpretation of Southern German "guotentag" as "good Wednesday" is rejected on phonetic and prosodic grounds;
• (5) the Modern English forms, all of which show -e-, and dialectal Dutch "waansdei" seem to encompass the verbal stem "wed-" = "to be mad", "to rage" (some English forms may also have been influenced by the verb "wendan" = "to turn"), and the same seems true for "Du.dial." = "weunsdag".

From a theoretical viewpoint, the article underlines the importance of regarding secondary, which are the product of a new iconym, as a true type of onomasiological change, as these may reflect human thinking and cultural conditions and are not only the result of phonetic aberrations. On the other hand, it also shows that a number of etymological problems still remains to be unsolved.

week (W3)

Die "Woche", plur. die -n. Eine sehr alte Art der Eintheilung der Zeit, von sieben auf einander folgenden Tagen, von dem Sonntage bis zum Sonnabend. Eine Zeit von drey, vier u. s. f. Wochen. Für zwey Wochen ist vierzehn Tage üblicher. Über drey Wochen, nach drey Wochen. In sechs Wochen wird er kommen, nach Verlauf von fünf bis sechs Wochen. Auf die Woche, im gemeinen Leben, in künftiger Woche. Die Woche drey Mahl ausfahren, in jeder Woche. Die Woche ist an mir, diejenige Woche, in welche die Reihe mich trifft.

2. Figürlich sind im gemeinen Leben die sechs Wochen, oder auch nur schlechthin, "die Wochen", "die Zeit der Entbindung mit den darauf folgenden sechs Wochen", das Kindbett. "In die Wochen kommen", "die Wochen halten" = "entbunden werden". "In den Wochen liegen" = "entbunden seyn". Ich habe sieben Mahl in den Wochen gelegen, Gell. Aus den Wochen kommen, diese sechs Wochen überstanden haben. S. auch "Wöchnerinn".

Anm. Schon im Isidor, Kero u. s. f. "Wehho", "Wechchu", "Wecha", im Nieders. "Wecke", im Angels. "Vca", "Wuca", im Engl. "Week", im Schwed. "Wik", "Vka". In dem Slavonischen Mundarten ist "Veca", "Wec", "Wik", = "ein jeder Zeitraum", "Alter", "ein Zeittheil", bey dem Ulphilas aber ist "Wiko" = eine "Reihe", "Ordnung", womit auch das Lat. "Vices" verwandt zu seyn scheinet.

“Week” in a Sentence (with Audio)

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ORIGIN OF WEEK

First recorded before 900; Middle English "weke", Old English "wice"; cognate with Dutch "week", Old Norse "vika" = "week", Gothic "wiko" = "turn"; akin to Latin "vicis" (genitive) = "turn" (see "vice" 3)
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"week" 1 zn. "periode van zeven dagen"

Mnl. "weke" = "week" in ene waruen ter weke ‘één keer per week’ [1236; VMNW], een weeck [1458; MNW-P].

Afleiding van "wijken". Het woord betekende in het Germaans "(af)wisseling". Toen de Germanen van de Romeinen de tijdrekening overnamen, kreeg het woord er de betekenis "(af)wisseling van tijd" ook "terugkerende periode van zeven dagen" bij uit Latijn (genitief) "vices" = "wisseling", "afwisseling", waarvoor zie "vice-".

Os. "wika"; ohd. "wehha" (nhd. "Woche"); ofri. "wike" (nfri. "wike"); oe. "wicu", "wucu" (ne. "week"); alle "week"; on. "vika" = "zeemijl" (met leenbetekenis "week" uit het oe.) (nzw. "vecka" = "week"); got. "wiko" = "beurt voor tempeldienst"; - pgm. "*wikon-" = "volgorde", "reeks", "toerbeurt".
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"week" (n.)

Old English "wucu", "wice", etc., from Proto-Germanic "*wiko-", "*wikon-" (source also of Old Norse "vika", Old Frisian "wike", Middle Dutch "weke", Old High German "wecha", German "woche"), probably originally with the sense of "a turning" or "succession" (compare Gothic "wikon" = "in the course of", Old Norse "vika" = "sea-mile", originally "change of oar", Old English "wican" = "yield", "give way"), from PIE root "*weik-" (2) = "to bend", "to wind". The vowel sound seems to have been uncertain in Old and Middle English and "-e-", "-i-", "-o-", "-u-", "-y-", and various diphthongs are attested for it.

"Meaning primarily "change", "alteration", the word may once have denoted some earlier time division, such as the "change of moon", "change of half month", ... but there is no positive evidence of this" [Buck]. No evidence of a native Germanic "week" before contact with the Romans. The seven-day week is ancient, probably originating from the 28-day lunar cycle, divisible into four periods of seven day, at the end of each of which the moon enters a new phase. Reinforced during the spread of Christianity by the ancient Jewish seven-day week.

As a Roman astrological convention it was borrowed by other European peoples; the Germanic tribes substituting their own deities for those of the Romans, without regard to planets. The Coligny calendar suggests a Celtic division of the month into halves; the regular Greek division of the month was into three decades; and the Romans also had a market week of nine days. Phrase a week, as in eight days a week recorded by 1540s; see "a-" (1).

Greek planetary names [for the days of the week] ... are attested for the early centuries of our era, but their use was apparently restricted to certain circles; at any rate they never became popular. In Rome, on the other hand, the planetary names became the established popular terms, too strongly intrenched to be displaced by the eccl[esiastical] names, and spreading through most of western Europe. [Carl Darling Buck, "A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages," 1949]

"*weik-" (2)

also "*weig-", Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to bend", "to wind".

It forms all or part of: "vetch"; "vicar"; "vicarious"; "vice-" "deputy, assistant, substitute"; "viceregent"; "vice versa"; "vicissitude"; "weak"; "weakfish"; "week"; "wicker"; "wicket"; "witch hazel"; "wych".

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit "visti" = "changing", "changeable"; Old English "wac" = "weak", "pliant", "soft", "wician" = "to give way", "yield", "wice" = "wych elm", Old Norse "vikja" = "to bend", "turn", Swedish "viker" = "willow twig", "wand", German "wechsel" = "change".

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Germanisch, finnisch

Die germanischen Sprachen benutzen stattdessen "wiko", das im Gotischen als Übersetzung von griech. "táxis" = "Ordnung", "Reihenfolge" dient und im Zusammenhang "Schicht im Dienstbetrieb der Priester" bedeutet. Daraus ahd. "wehha", "wohha", and. "wika", aengl. "wice", "wicu", "wucu", engl. "week", anord. "vika". Daraus finn. "viika".

Das anord. Wort bedeutet auch "Seemeile" (die Strecke, die eine Schicht Ruderer fährt, bevor sie abgelöst wird). Das führt zu einer Grundbedeutung "Wechsel (in der Arbeit, von Tagen)". "Woche" ist daher verwandt mit "Wechsel". Das deutsche /o/ und aengl. /u/ sind Anpassung des Vokals an den vorangehenden Labial.
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"week"
periode van zeven opeenvolgende dagen die een van de 52 cycli vormt waarin een kalenderjaar wordt onderverdeeld en die begint op de dag die gebruikelijk als eerste dag van de week wordt aangeduid, vaak op maandag, of, vaak vanuit meer godsdienstige opvatting, op zondag; periode van maandag tot en met zondag of van zondag tot en met zaterdag; kalenderweek
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1: a period of seven days

In the U.S., a week is usually considered to start on Sunday and end on Saturday, while in the U.K. a week is usually considered to start on Monday and end on Sunday.
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A time sign used in alchemy to indicate a week.

word-detective - week-days

Yesterday - Rose

• dt. "gestern" = engl. "yesterday"
• dt. "vorgestern" = engl. "the day before yesterday"

• "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is prophesy."
• "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and the present is a gift. (That's why the ycall it the present.)"

Climbing Yesterday | Yesterday | Yesterday, Cl.

YESTERDAY - Dwarf Polyantha

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Harkness berichtet, daß ihn der Gedanke, sie könnte zu Zeiten der Königin Viktoria gezüchtet worden sein, auf den Namen brachte; also nicht der berühmte Song der Beatles.
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Yesterdays Tomorrow
the guy who made the band was named matt young...matt young came out of the closet the day b4 the band started(yesterday)...and he sain no 1 will know untill tomorrow...so he sed the band should be called yesterays tomorrow because h had gay pride

Yesterday's Over Your Shoulder (1940)

Entry from June 20, 2009

"Today is a gift—that’s why it’s called the present" has been cited in print since at least 1993 and possibly originated on a Hallmark greeting card. The newspaper comic strip "The Family Circus" by Bill Keane, published on August 31, 1994, contained this wisdom: "Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a GIFT. That’s why it’s called the present." The phrase is often changed slightly: "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift—that’s why it’s called the present." The saying "yesterday is history, tomorrow’s a mystery" — without "today is a gift" — has been cited in print since at least 1967.
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Yesterday - Retroshow (D 2004)

Brown, Charles Reynolds: Five Young Men - Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day (English) (as Author)

Buck, Charles Neville, 1879-1930: The Key to Yesterday (English) (as Author)

Cady, John H. (John Henry), 1846-1927: Arizona's Yesterday - Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer (English) (as Author)

Fields, James T., 1817-1881: Yesterdays with Authors (English) (as Author)

Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord, 1856-1928: The Days Before Yesterday (English) (as Author)

Hocking, Joseph, 1860-1937: The Pomp of Yesterday (English) (as Author)

Lahee, Henry Charles, 1856-1953

• Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday (English) (as Author)
• Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday (English) (as Author)

Legler, Henry Eduard: Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today (English) (as Author)

Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips), 1866-1946: A Millionaire of Yesterday (English) (as Author)

Seltzer, Adele Szold, 1876-1940: The Trail to Yesterday (English) (as Author)

Stevens, Frank: Stonehenge - Today and Yesterday (English) (as Author)

Sumner, Heywood, 1853-1940: Stonehenge - Today and Yesterday (English) (as Illustrator)

Terry, Jean F. (Jean Finlay), 1865-1951: Northumberland Yesterday and To-day (English) (as Author)

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1855-1919: Yesterdays (English) (as Author)

Woon, Basil, 1893-1974: Arizona's Yesterday - Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer (English) (as Author)

Wright, Harold Bell, 1872-1944: Their Yesterdays (English) (as Author)

born yesterday | yesterday

Kravitz, Lenny: Yesterday is gone

Beatles: Yesterday

... The word for "yesterday" in Dutch is "gisteren" and for the day before yesterday it's "eergisteren". You can see the connection with the Old English "gystran". Now the word for "deag" or in modern English "day" is "dag" in the Dutch language. As you pointed out "gystran" already has the day in it and so it is with the Dutch, they don’t say "gisteren dag" but just plainly "gisteren". "Yesterday evening" becomes "gisteren avond", or "gister avond". Now then, contrary to the Old English that "gystran" can also mean "tomorrow", in Dutch "gisteren" does not mean that. There is another word for that, i.e. "morgen". (This word can also mean "morning".) So when I say: "morgen gaan we vissen," my Dutch friends will know that "tomorrow we go fishing".

It Only Happened Yesterday - by Jack Scott

I Saw Linda Yesterday - by Dickey Lee

Yesterday's Gone - by Chad & Jeremy

• More Than Yesterday - by Slim Whitman
• Yesterday - by The Beatles

Just Yesterday - by Al Martino

Yesterday - by Ray Charles

• More Today Than Yesterday - by Spiral Starecase
• Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday - by Stevie Wonder
• Yesterday, When I Was Young - by Roy Clark

1900 Yesterday - by Liz Damon's Orient Express

Yesterday Once More - by The Carpenters

• Holdin' On To Yesterday - by Ambrosia
• Only Yesterday - by The Carpenters

• That Was Yesterday - by Donna Fargo
• Yesterday's Gone - by Vern Gosdin

Yesterday Once More - by Moe Bandy

Yesterday's Songs - by Neil Diamond

Yesterday's Wine - by Merle Haggard / George Jones

That Was Yesterday - by Foreigner

• Stone Cold Yesterday - by The Connells
• Yesterday Girl - by The Smithereens

Yesterdays - by Guns N' Roses

Like There Ain't No Yesterday - by Blackhawk

From Yesterday - by 30 Seconds To Mars

"Not born yesterday"

Yesterday's man or Yesterday's woman

Yesterday
Guest, Edgar Albert (1881 - 1959)

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.

"Yesterday's neologisms, like yesterday's jargon, are ..." Marjorie Garber

Yesterday Reef - Rose

Yesterday's Garden - Rose

Brill - EC
Etymological Calendar
Herausgeber: Etymological Calendar Team

What does the word "lord" have to do with "bread"? How is "smile" related to "mirror"? Why is "Donald" such an appropriate name for an American president?

These and 363 other questions are answered in the Etymology Calendar of 2020. This popular scientific calendar provides an insight into the fascinating world of historical linguistics for anyone with an interest in languages. It treats the surprising histories behind words you use on a daily basis, but also contains interesting developments from tens of other languages. An essential collection of etymological trivia for every language enthusiast!

The Etymology Calendar is interesting for readers without linguistic background or knowledge of foreign languages. However, even experienced linguists will gain many surprising new insights.

kartoniert, Status: Erscheint in Kürze, ISBN: 978-90-04-42202-5, Publikationsdatum: 18 Nov 2019

Etymology Calendar: 366 interisting word histories

Merriam-Webster (Herausgeber)
365 New Words-A-Year Page-A-Day Calendar

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The most beloved and bestselling word calendar on the market - the one that belongs on the desk of every crossword buff, writer, reader, student, and lover of language. Take your vocabulary to the next level with hundreds of smart and unexpected words, from the classic to the neoteric, chosen by the editors at Merriam-Webster, America's most respected dictionary.

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365 New Words-A-Year Calendar
(Page a Day Calendar)

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The bestselling word calendar celebrates the love of language every day, perfect for word lovers, readers, writers, crossword buffs, and students. Here are hundreds of smart, unexpected, and useful words compiled by the editors at Merriam-Webster, America's most-respected dictionary. The spiritual ("ahimsa"), the political ("roorback"), the 21st century ("vaporware"), the comical ("higgledy-piggledy"), the million-dollar ("pachydermatous"), and more. Entries include definition, pronunciation, sample sentences, word history, and miscellany: Did you know "facetious" is one of the few English words that uses the vowels "a, e, i, o, u" in order?